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21st Century Learning Tools
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Glogster (Education version!)
http://edu.glogster.com/
Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom.
Take a Tour
Animoto
http://animoto.com/
Turn your photos, video clips, and music into video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free and shockingly easy.
Learn More/ Features
Voki
http://www.voki.com/
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
Voki for Education
Wallwisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/
Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily.
FAQ
Kerpoof
http://www.kerpoof.com/
Create artwork, animated movies, a story, printed card, etc.
About - How to, etc.
VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Support/ How To/ Manuals, etc.
Prezi
http://prezi.com/
Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books.
Learn
Jing
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor.
Free Version
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide
FAQ
Tagzedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
FAQ
UJAM
http://www.ujam.com/
UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music or enhance their existing musical talent and share it with friends.
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Google Docs
http://www.google.com/
Upload your files from your desktop. Access anywhere. Share your work.

PBWorks
http://pbworks.com/
Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools.
Resources
Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/
Brainstorming made simple

Blabberize
http://blabberize.com/
Upload picture and make the picture "talk"

Survey Monkey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Free Survey Tool
Tour
Scribblar
http://www.scribblar.com



Diagram.ly
lets students create mind maps, diagrams and flowcharts in a very simple, straightforward way, and has lots of tutorials. No registration or account required! Students can save diagrams to their desktop

Storybird
http://storybird.com/
create stories


Twurdy
new search engine that rates each search result according to its reading level. It takes it a bit longer than other search engines to show the results of a search, but it's worth the wait


Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
fantastic collection of different brain-teaser games. These types of games really work the higher-order thinking skills and problem solving skills


Twister
create fake 'tweets' from historical characters, characters in a novel, etc. Could be a great quick assignment! No registration or login required. Also, check out the rest of the tools on ClassTools.net, such as the countdown timer or the different mind map templates


Wonderville
interactive science games and lessons


Scrumblr
a virtual 'corkboard' or 'sticky-note board' that is text-only. Please check it out, see the demo page; there are tons of uses for this sort of thing. Other similar sites are Wallwisher and AnswerGarden


intothebook
Reading Strategies - games


http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
site with many links to web 2.0 tools


http://www.teachingvillage.org/2010/03/09/moving-your-kindergarten-into-web-2-0-with-5-different-tools-by-ozge-karaoglu/
Using Web 2.0 with Kindergarten students


http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2010/02/25-places-to-find-instructional-videos.html
List of sites with "how to videos"

Scratch
scratch.mit.edu
Create video games

Thinkfinity
http://www.thinkfinity.org/in-the-classroom
GREAT STUFF HERE!

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com
Great Book for Read Aloud to use with the document camera.

Jogtheweb
www.jogtheweb.com
Create projiects for students, insert all the web links and diretions - webquet - like site.

Weebly
http://www.weebly.com/
Easy site to create your own website.

Study Stack
http://www.studystack.com/
Great site to create your own flashcards

Signup Genius
www.signupgenius.com
Create forms for people to sign up for events (conferences, etc.)

Spelling City
www.spellingcity.com
Great site for practicing spelling words - lots of fun games

Ducksters
www.ducksters.com
Student friendly Google search

Morgue Files
www.morguefiles.com
Free photos for student use

MixBook
www.mixbook.com
Great for making picture books, showing them online, then if students want to buy the book they make they can for as low as $6.99


www.iamlodge.com
Academic songs

LittleBirdTales
http://littlebirdtales.com
create stories, record voice

Voluteerspot
www.volunteerspot.com
online registration for classroom activities/volunteer, parent conferences, etc.


http://www.tikatok.com/create
Create stories save them digitally and/or order them.

LiveBinder
http://livebinders.com/
create a binder for information that you can categorize, easy to add links and content

Symbaloo
http://www.symbaloo.com
bookmark websites

Edmodo
http://www.edmodo.com/home
set up class assignments for students to collaborate, share content, access information, homework, etc.


Spinner
assigning jobs randomly, game making Assign Jobs - Facilitator, Reporter, Materials Distributor, Recorder, Timekeeper


National Library of Virutal Manipulatives



www.tikatok.com
creating books for publishing and possible purchase, Barnes and Noble

Online Time Bomb



Ten Marks
www.tenmarks.com
Group Response, Data collection for Math strands, math instructional videos

SamAnimation
www.samanimation.com



www.bookbuilder.cast.org



www.bookwizard.scholastic.com


VIDEO
Above and Beyond video
http://youtu.be/7KMM387HNQk

Group Discussion: How do we provide "Above and Beyond" experiences for ALL our students. How is this 21st Century Learning?
Student Activity: Group Discussion and have students create speech inspiring others to strive to go Above and Beyond.

Video: Vision of 21st Century Teachers.wmv